Oh let the Son of God and found you with his spirit and his life,

let him fill your heart and satisfy your soul.

Oh, let him have the things that hold you

and his spirit like a dove will descend upon your life and make you

whole. you home.

Welcome to the Word for today,

featuring the Bible Teaching of Pastor Chuck Smith,

founder of the Calvary Chapel Movement.

This radio program is a verse by verse study through the entire

Bible. And on today's edition of the word for today,

Pasturet continues with the parable of the giant cedar as we pick up in Ezekiel chapter 31 first one.

And now with today's message here's Pastor Chuck.

So we turn now to Ezekiel chapter 31. In chapters 29 and 30 of Ezekiel he was

prophesying concerning the judgment of God that was to come against the nation of

Egypt who was like a Reed when Israel sought to lean upon it it broke and only injured Israel. They were of course warned about leaning upon Egypt, but the warnings were not

heated and thus Egypt became as a broken staff and did not really help Israel except only temporarily when Pharaoh Hopfri came against Babylon for a time and they stopped the siege

against Jerusalem for a short period.

Now in chapter 31 he begins a prophecy against the Pharaoh himself.

And in this prophecy against the Pharaoh he turns to more or less a

parable in which he likens the Egyptian leader

to a great cedar tree in Lebanon.

Now Lebanon used to be famous for its huge cedar trees.

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